Chapter 17
Clinton Creates WTO Disaster

In 2000, President Clinton gave Jiang Zemin a big gift, unlimited most-favored-nation treatment. In 2001, he allowed the Communist Party to join the WTO and opened the US and world markets to the Communist Party, which was tantamount to inviting a wolf into the house. The Communist Party was fattened for 12 years and then fed up with it for another 12 years. Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. Today, 12 years later, he finally turned the plowshare into a sword and aimed it at the United States, wanting to replace it and compete with the United States for hegemony. The Communist Party has remained unchanged since Stalin and Mao Zedong. The “hundred-year marathon” will eventually make the West kneel down and surrender.

I. The Communist Party donated money to Clinton’s re-election

According to the US Trade Act Amendment (Jacoson-Vanik Ammendment) that came into effect in 1975, non-market countries with poor human rights conditions (mainly the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and also Communist China) cannot enjoy most-favored-nation trade treatment unless they are exempted by the US President, and the exemption period is only one year.

Linking human rights accountability with trade with communist China is a trump card given to the United States by God, and it should be used well. In the late 1970s, after ten years of civil unrest during the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party was impoverished and its national strength declined. It was forced to open up to the West, especially the United States, and obtain American technology and earn American money through attracting investment and processing imported materials. At that time, the United States could easily and effectively restrain the Chinese Communist Party from enslaving and persecuting its citizens by using trade leverage, which was also the original intention of the Trade Act Amendment.

In 1980, the United States conditionally approved the granting of most-favored-nation trade treatment to communist China, opening the door to communist China, the world’s factory, and laying the groundwork for the subsequent trade war. Although communist China was exempted every year because of the liberal faction such as Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang in power at that time, Congress had to review its human rights situation every year to decide whether to extend its most-favored-nation treatment.

After the Tiananmen Massacre, the United States faced a moral choice: to unconditionally extend the most-favored-nation trade treatment of the tyrannical Chinese Communist Party, or to force the improvement of human rights as a condition, or even decisively terminate its most-favored-nation treatment as a punishment? Incredibly, Bush chose the former for three consecutive years until he left office. His light sanctions on the CCP, as well as his so-called constructive engagement and human rights dialogues, were not of any concern to the CCP; the CCP tyranny was able to continue to benefit from US-China trade without worries after slaughtering the people.

There was a reason why Bush gave up his principles and protected the CCP at a historical juncture. Before Nixon visited Beijing, he discussed with Kissinger who would go to communist China to take the lead. At that time, both of them thought that Bush was too weak to be competent. But Bush later served as the director of the US Liaison Office in China. After he arrived, he was received by the Communist Party’s United Front, and mistakenly thought that the Communist bandit officials who seemed to be gentle and refined were the same kind of people as himself. He secretly sent a special envoy to Beijing as soon as possible after June 4th, trying to impress and influence the Communist bandit thugs and executioners who were not normal human beings through personal relationships, but ended up humiliating himself and gained nothing. But after hitting a wall, he still remained infatuated and helped the CCP through the June 4th crisis.

During his campaign, Clinton criticized Bush Sr. for being lenient to the “Beijing Butcher”. In his first year in office (1993), he issued an executive order requiring the Chinese Communist Party to significantly improve human rights within one year, otherwise the most-favored-nation status would be lost. But a year later, when the US State Department determined that there was no significant improvement in the human rights situation in communist China, Clinton openly reneged on his words. At a press conference on May 26, 1994, he announced that although China’s (Communist) human rights were far from the standards he had set a year ago, he still decided to extend the most-favored-nation treatment for the Chinese Communist Party, and from then on, trade and human rights assessments would be decoupled because the policy of linking most-favored-nation with human rights “has reached the end of its practicality”. But in fact, this policy was either vetoed or abandoned by the president, and it has remained on paper or verbally for several years. This sword hanging over the head of the Chinese Communist Party has never fallen once. Since it has never been implemented, how can it be said to be ineffective?

However, Clinton also took some actions, such as strengthening the broadcasting of Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, suggesting that American companies in China voluntarily follow the business principles of protecting human rights, and supporting non-governmental organizations that did not exist in mainland China at the time to spread democracy. But these official documents did nothing except make the CCP laugh and make it more daring to do evil. No wonder the CCP returned the favor by making illegal political donations to the Democratic Party during Clinton’s re-election campaign, directly interfering in the US election and political direction.